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Posted: 2/27/2008 2:56:28 AM | | If a place serves something I like, such as tea, I have asked for the name of the supplier and gotten the item that way. If it is an item blended by the restaurant, sometimes they will sell bulk. I have done that with a spice blend from a local restaurant. | |
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Posted: 2/28/2008 10:31:55 AM | I used to get very fancy with my tea, having my own infuser and going to specialty shops for teas. Now I only drink Salada decaffeinated green tea that I brew a cup at a time with mug/water from the microwave. I probably have 5-7 cups a day during the winter. Which brings me to a question...does anyone know if it is dangerous to drink that much green tea? 
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Posted: 2/28/2008 3:34:36 PM | CG5000:
does anyone know if it is dangerous to drink that much green tea?
Large quantities of green tea are NOT a good idea IF you're on either diuretics or blood thinners. You should be aware , if you aren't already, that some herbal and/or green teas act as a diuretic, and will enhance the effect of other medication.
With blood thinners like coumadin, the tea can LESSEN the effect of the medication, needing more careful testing and balancing of the dose.
Other than those medical reasons, I don't think you can overdose on the stuff. | |
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Posted: 8/3/2008 9:47:48 AM | | Im not a big fan of tea but while in SC this summer my family found the best sweet tea ever. Its made by Firefly and its a sweet tea vodka... you can add it to water but its even better if you add it to lemonade | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 7:42:48 AM | | I still use old fashioned Lipton tea and drink at least one cup a day for the past 30 years. Its stilll very soothing and relaxing. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 8:06:40 AM |
Which brings me to a question...does anyone know if it is dangerous to drink that much green tea?
Green tea is safe, as long as you don't drink too much. Experts say you can have up to ten cups a day, unless you are taking additional supplements. Talk to your doctor to be sure.
Green tea contains caffeine, which can cause insomnia, anxiety, upset stomach, nausea and diarrhea in some people. Caffeine can also raise blood pressure, and in very high doses, seizures, delirium, or irregular heart rhythms may occur.
Green tea contains small amounts of vitamin K which can make anticoagulant drugs less effective. Tell your doctor you are taking green tea, or any herbal supplement. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 11:00:25 AM | | What drives me crazy is ordering hot tea in a restaurant, and being brought a little metal teapot with "hot" water, and a teabag to dip in it. If the water isn't boiling hot, you don't end up with drinkable tea, so it's not worth the bother. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 12:10:49 PM | I love a good pot of properly brewed tea! I learned to brew and drink tea from a New Zealand friend and have been enjoying hot tea ever since.
But have a question...several years ago I met a couple from Kenya who made the best tea I've ever sipped from a teacup. It was a tea from Kenya and she'd brew it on the stove top with water, milk and sugar. I never did get the name of the tea but know that it was grown by his father on a tea plantation. there in Kenya.
Anyone have an idea of what it was I was drinking? | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 12:46:50 PM | At work I use Lipton tea bags because they're easy, inexpensive, and I'm okay with them. Lots of Chinese people around here use them. At home, though, I brew loose tea. My favorite for years has been Russian Caravan. Twinings made it, then quit, then I got another brand I didn't like as much. Recently, I found a wonderful place online in Seattle called Dragonwater. I've been mixing Keemun and Russian Caravan, 1/2 & 1/2, and love it. I like an unflavored black tea with a robust flavor but not bitter. I love these folks and their teas. I make it loose in the cup with a basket infuser. It allows the water to circulate around the leaves freely. I brew it for about 3 minutes and then lift it out. My favorite mid afternoon treat is a good cup of tea and a slice of good pound cake. It's the best.
Check out Dragonwater. You can google them. They have a comprehensive line of black, green, and herb teas plus supplies. You can get 1 oz. sample packs of teas for $1 or 2, depending on the tea, so you can try different ones to see what you like. They are really good folks to do business with and I have not been disappointed yet. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 12:49:21 PM |
Which brings me to a question...does anyone know if it is dangerous to drink that much green tea? I was alarmed at first at the amount of caffeine that would be but no, I don't think there's any problem with that much decaf. Green and black teas are high in antioxidants, which are good for you. I'd constantly be in the bathroom, though, if I drank that much tea. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 12:52:45 PM |
green teas act as a diuretic
This has been a popular notion but recent research has indicated that black and green teas are *not* diuretics. A diuretic makes you urinate more fluid than you take in. What has been shown is that black and green teas make you urinate *sooner,* probably because of the caffeine, but they don't actually make you urinate more. This quick effect makes them appear to have a diuretic effect but they don't. I don't drink tea if I won't be near a bathroom, though, for this very reason. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 12:58:22 PM | | the best tea.....by far is a variety called lapsang sauchung[sp?].............it is very robust......and very much like a good scotch...........it has a very complex flavor ...all thats needed is a touch of honey or sugar......i know twinnnings has it.........try it............. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2008 1:39:23 PM | oooooooh Let's put the kettle on for a brew!
Hands down fave is English Breakfast (I lived in the uk for 5 years and just learned to drink tea as opposed to coffee. When I moved back to Canada it took me a while to find a tea that tasted nearly the same as the everyday brew over there. ) with Earl Grey not too far behind. Orange Pekoe is CRAP! Blech, cannot stand the stuff.
I use one teabag in one mug as I am the only person in my household who drinks tea and I usually only want one cup of it.
I do admit to being fed up with Tim Hortons and they're ignorance to my tea order - what part of 'extra large English Breakfast, 2 milk 2 sugar BOTH BAGS IN' are you not quite grasping here? grrrrrr so I only stop there if I'm out and about. | |
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Posted: 8/14/2008 8:19:07 PM | | Tea just isnt real tea if it isn't made in a tea pot ( being british my grand mother would always tell me that lol ) The milk has to be in the cup first too otherwise it tastes wrong lol. I personally prefer twinings tea and my favourite is earl grey. | |
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Posted: 8/15/2008 10:15:10 PM | | My favorite tea is actually an herbal Ayurvedic Pitta Dosha balancing tea. Lots of words there! It has Cardamom, Licorice, Ginger, Cinnamon and dried rose petals. Delicious stuff and it is a bit naturally sweet. My other faves are jasmine, Twinning's Lady Grey, a good chai, and hibiscus tea. I love middle eastern restaurants and never get enough hibiscus and mint tea. | |
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Posted: 8/15/2008 11:00:16 PM |
The ones in Britain heat up in half the time ours do, because they have 220V, but ah that is life in the USA :)
Probably even quicker than that since when you double the voltage you also double the current which in turn quadruples the power consumed for the same wattage heating element.
Sorry, but that isn't true. One hundred watts is one hundred watts, no matter what the voltage. If the voltage is doubled, the amperage is reduced by half. The formula is volts X amps = watts. If the ones in Britain have twice the voltage and the same amount of current (amperage) they will consume twice the wattage. It's like comparing a 10,000 watt space heater to a 20,000 watt space heater. Capisce?
I was a construction electrician for 13 years is how I know this. | |
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Posted: 1/29/2009 10:50:17 AM | I use an herbal tea for detox. It is gentle and has blessed thistle, holy thistle, malva root and marshmallow. When the excess weight is actually from impacted fecal matter stuck to the inside wall of the colon and small intestine from years of starch and dairy consumption, no amount of dieting or fat loss or exercise can reduce the size of the belly. But this Tea clams it can!
If you have bloat, midriff bulge, or a "beer belly" then it can help you shed pounds and lose inches around your waist.
I have more info on this if anyone is interested... | |
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Posted: 1/29/2009 4:07:26 PM | Hi all, I have found the views expressed about tea, types, how to brew, pro and cons of green/caffienated-decaffienated tea's etc and detox tea's, very interesting..Historically for me the Hibiscus plant in essence is important for me, because I am a Horticulturalist specialising in growing as a hobby food/beverage sustanable trees,vegetables, fruits,shrubs, flowers and grasses..
I use most parts of these, which are not toxic (all beverages/foodstuffs are toxic if over-indulged/ingested, or an allergic reaction takes place), I grow Coffee, Cocao, Nettles-weeds, herbs and Hibiscus, which are harvested, carefully dried, dehydrated in oven if required, stored in air tight stone jars with a lump of charcoal (removes moisture/storage odours), these jars are kept out of light in a cool room.
When I require the tea like material to be decanted from the jars to smaller jars or grinding in a mortar/grinder, I always make sure it has been exposed to room temperature for at least 6 hours.
Tea's I find in general brew better in industrial quality ceramic porcelain vessels, heated via stove, microwave, BBQ (smoked tea)! or volcano if camping! (funny how beverages/food always taste better, when at one with nature!- the midges give it extra bite!). The older style electric kettles that used to over-boil the water, seem to also give a better brew.A pressure cooker is also useful for super-heated tea's.
Whilst we worry here about the green tea/caffiene issues, perhaps we should worry more about being run over by cars/lorries etc, perhaps step down a gear from our hectic lives and start caring for our fragile world, so that there is foods/beverages available in our future lives..So if your sitting on your IROKO/TEAK patio set, just think if it took 400 years+ to grow the tree, how can it be FSC- sustainable in our lifetimes!?
There needs to be a global tree replanting stategy on a scale not ever seen before, this applies to clearing land of trees to grow crops like our beloved Tea, Coffee and Cocao..
My great great grandfather who was a captain of the Tea Clipper the "Ariel", has a lot to answer for in the popularity of Tea drinking in the Western World along with other countries exploits.
That aside detox tea will work if you believe they will and you follow a processed food free diet perhaps or even drinking just the water brewed for the the tea could be as effective (especially non flourodated spring water), as water makes you feel full, for every tea/coffee/cocao drunk you need to drink at least one litre of water.
My favourite brews are Lemon Balm-calmness/relaxation, Nettle/Bergamot-detox, Feverfew-anti migraine, St. John's Wort-anti-depressant properties, ginger/mints-gastric remedies, yunnan, english breakfast, earl/lady gray, green tea with pineapple/grapefruit-cranberries-apple&pear, generally I use comercially produced fruit tea, unless I can harvest my own ingredients according to the season.
There is nothing nicer than sitting on top of a mountain on a summer's/winter's morning, gas stove-brewing the water for a refreshing cup/bowl of CHAI/TEA!! and taking in the world at your feet, just need to find some other UK based "Tea" Nuts willing to share that and other outdoor ideals, perhaps we could start a UK open all terrain tea brewing championships! or perhaps they already exist! all.  for the hills! | |
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Posted: 1/29/2009 7:59:21 PM | I have been drinking a lot of tetley tea lately. Jasmine is my favorite and a new one called Lychee Pear; green tea is very good as well. I also like black currant, Earl Grey and so many others.
Whether I use bags or a tea ball/strainer if brewing a pot I always heat the pot first, and I agree that if you are using milk it does taste better when put into a cup before the tea.
Generally though I use a tea bag in a big ceramic beer stein, I steep it for quite a while and just add sugar... no milk unless it is a non fruity dark tea or earl grey. | |
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Posted: 1/30/2009 2:50:34 AM |
if you are using milk it does taste better when put into a cup before the tea.
Just don't ever put in the milk, then the lemon and then the tea. GROSS! You will end up with clotted cream.........
Be sure to put in the milk, then the tea, then the lemon is you use it. | |
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Posted: 1/30/2009 7:27:27 AM | | I love tea.I drink tea with honey and milk but in herb ones I just use honey and a spice one such as chai I use both honey and milk. | |
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Posted: 2/12/2009 3:40:37 AM | A neat thread and obviously some real tea lovers.
One of the great things about tea is you have so many choices: Black, green, white, etc. Not to mention the country of origin. So it's easy to select the type or brand that you want at any given moment.
A big part of it seems to be the ritual of actually preparing it. People before this post have given some great tips on how they do it. Can't argue with that. One thing, I seem to find unless your careful it's very easy to let it steep for too long. Then it gets something of a bitter taste which destroys the experience.
Here in the Metro NYC area there are a number of brick and mortar stores that stock some excellent teas. Although at least one poster mentioned some on line sources. One interesting type of tea are the 'blooming teas' which open up into small flowers when placed into hot water. They are best in a special glass pot so you can see them slowly open. An interesting and showy treat. | |
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Posted: 2/12/2009 6:48:54 AM | ^^^^That is just, just, well, can we say eweeeee????
OT: I love Tetley tea. I have a special teapot that sits on top of a ceramic base that you can put a tea light in. Serves about 2.5 cups and is always hot, just the way it should be!!! I also enjoy a nice peppermint or spearmint tea as well. Reading some of the posts here, I think I may have to venture out to try others. Not a big fan of green tea though. | |
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